Steve Watson is an Australian born designer working and living in
the UK. After graduating in Industrial Design from the University
of Queensland in 1997, he worked as an in-house designer for
Fibre Light Systems before setting up his own design practice in
2000. Since then he has divided his time taking on commercial design
commissions for interior projects and designing and producing
items for his own home range. His designs include sofas, chairs,
stools, lights and tableware.
His debut solo exhibition entitled “Need is not the reason” was
held in Richmond, Australia in 2002. It featured three very different
designs, a sofa, light and salt and pepper pots. After coming
to Britain in 2003, he has gone on to exhibit new work at 100%
East and Designersblock during the London Design Festival, and at
Designersblock and the SaloneSatellite in Milan.
Steve Watson can be viewed as a designer unshackled. He feels
blessed that he can see beauty “anywhere and everywhere” and
his work often reflects this. There is a notable relaxed sensibility
in his designs, a freedom of expression, a sense of humour. He
works comfortably across a variety of materials, from glass, wood,
concrete, metals to plastics, blending them together as effortlessly
as he blends ideas.